Machine for addressing envelops and the like.



EATBNTED JUNE unA 1906.

J. J. BRAUN. MAQHNE FR ADDRBSSING BNVELOPS AND T LIKE.

3 SHBBTS-SEEET l PATBNTJ JUNE 19, 1906.

J. g. BRAUN. MACHINE PoR Annsssms BNvELoPs AND THB LIKE.

APPLXOATIUR FILED AUG.B. 1905,

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A I S" No. 823,983. Y PATBNTBD JUNE 19, 1906.

" J. J. BRAUN.

MACHINE P011 ADDRBSSING BNVBLOPS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FLED AUG. E. 1905.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3A e transverse vertical seo-tion thereof, taken `lerger scale than the principal views.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T() EDWlN l).

JACOB J. BRAUN,

BELKNAP.

MACHINE FOR-ADDRESASHNG ENVELOPS AND THE LIKE.

Speciieetion of Iletters Patent.

Applioation filed August. 8, 1995. Serial Re. 273,225.

No, 823,988, Patented June 19, 1908 lever V'i'. carrying on its upper erm e platen 8. 1n the freine sind mounted in bearings in brackets 9 thereon is a rockslmt l0, which .To ZZ whom it may no1-warn:

Be it known that l, .Moon J. BRAUN, a. citizen of the United States, residing in the horough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, in has en erm 11, carrying a stud roller 12, the city end Stute orNew York, have inventwhich plays in atoom groove or slot 13 in an ed'eertain neW and useful improvements 1n Machines for Addressing Envelops and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of nier chines wherein the address is stenoiled on the envelop, wra per, or the like from a stencilesrd, which otter is fed into position and l inked h v n. roller, the envelop orother thing upon which the metter is to he stenoiled he.- ing held down by o movable pieten.

The moin object of the' present invention is to simplify and eheepen the construction end to provide e ineens whereby the addressing may be duplicated. For exemple, ineens are provided whereby one address may be printed from each steneitoard, or two or more addresses may be printed therefrom efsueessively, es desired, by arresting the IIn the accompanying drawings, which illustrate en embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan of the ineehne. Fig. 2 is freine. y rocking the lever 14 about its fnlernin t e shaft 10 is rocked.

. On th lever 14 is enrerin i5, which is coupled by o. link 16 to e ner or plate 1'?, rnoonted to slideforward and hack on guides 18. This her carries the feeders for the stenoiteirds S, one of which is seen in section Fin Fig. 7. Thxe feeders or ushers i9, preferably two, ere preferably nged at yc in the sliding ber i7, end when in operative position a shoulder 19 on the pusher thick hoard trarne s of the lower stencil-card inthe hopper 3 end in the forward or feeding movement of the seidv har carries or ushes the card forward in guides 20 on the ed of the machine to a point under the elevated platen 8, which serves to )ross the envelop down on the eerd ,and to aok it while the stenoiling of the address is being eiected. The platen is operated by e Cain 21 on the lever i4, which nets on en eccentric sturiroller 22, mounted in a. pendent erm of the lever which enrries the pieten. Fig. is a detail sectional view showing the eccentric monnting'oi the studroller 22., the oliieet of seid mounting being to re nieto the pressure of the pieten on the enve op or sheet which at line :n2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is s. lan from which the machine-bed is oinitte so as to show the mechanism below it. Fig. 4 is a. vertical section et line .17* in Fig. l. Figs. 5 end 6 are side elevations of the left-hond side of the machine, showingI the movable parts in di'ierent positions. n these views the frame is partly broken away. Fig. 7 shows a steneiloerd in orossseotion on e liifv. 8 isn detail which will be hereinafter dscribed.

in the principal views, T designates a te ble, in which the meohine muy be mounted for convenience of operation. This table or teblebed may he of'wood.

1 is the bed and treme of the machine, provided with suitable luge 2 or other ineens for scouring it to the table. oi' seid inking-roller rest on or engage trock- 3 is the delivery-hopper for holding the :zinns 27 on the frame,li`igs. 3, il, and 5, and stencil-cards, and 4 is the reooivng'liopperl when the seid roller is retraeted these ooms therefor. l permit it to desoend into oonteot e ein With 'in the meohine-irnme is mounted en ink-'l the 'immtniwroller In order to istribute fountain 5, provided with n. fountain-roller i the ink properly on the hiking-roller 24, (i. end also in the treme is fiilerunied et o e ineens ere provided for rotating the fountainoard. A spring 23 retrocts t e pl :tten An inking-roller 24 is rotetively mounted in e. freine 25, und this frame is coupled at d ,to en arm 2k3 on the rook-shaft H). This shaft moves the roller 24 from its oonteot with the foon tain-roller o, w here it receives inl( forward in the printing or steneiling` movement and beek signin toits I'irst position. In order to lift thev hiking-roller from the foun tain-.roller to the level re uiredl for ep lying ink to the stencil-card S idiot may et t time be in the proper position under the platen, the iournels engages thev operetin Jever 14, fulcrumed at b on the receives-the stenciled inscription from the IDO roller during the backward movement of the inking-roller and also While these two rollers are in Contact.

n one projecting journal of the fountain- Ioller 6, (seen at the left in Fig. 2) is a ratchet'- Wheel 28, and on the other journal thereof is a spur- Wheel 29. A spring pawl rack 3U, carried by the lever 14, engages theI ratchetwheel 28 and rotates the fountain roller when the lever lfi is actuated. A. pur-wheel 3] on one, journal of the hiking-roller 24 movesinto gear with the spur-wheel 2t), and thus is assured the rotation of the 'roller 24 in peripheral contact with the fountain-roller and with the saine peripheral speed to compel the hiking-roller 24 to rotate when it passes over the u nder surface of the stencilcard, the teeth. of the e ur-wheel 31 thereon are made to when t le rolleris lil' i ed up hy the track-cams 27 with a fixed reel( '31 in or on the lower face of the rnaehine-bed.

The card S is mede in the usual way of a pietje of hard thin ieper, whit-h has the stencil 'orlned on itwith performing-tj' ies, und a stili frame sof paper-hoard or the like. The cards are super' osed in the hopper 3 in the usual wav, and t e shoulders on the pushers l t) engage the frame of the lowerrnost eard in the hopper and push it forward along' the guides 20 to its pozn'tion under the,platen S. In the operation the attendant places the envelop or Whatever isto receive the steneiled inscrip-- tion on the `guides 2l.) and up to any suitahie stops on the machine inproper 'position unde!` the platen, which latter descends and presses the envelop into close Contact with the stencileard. Then the roller 24, charged with ink, rises and moves tornar( rolling over the lower ieee of the stencil and haekagain. The platen then lifts, and the addressed envelo is removed. The next eteneil-ea'rd brought 'or- Ward dis )laces that one under the platen and pushee the latter into the receiving-hopper 4. In the present drawings only the operating-lever 14 is shown adapted to he actuated hy hand, for example; hut it will he obvious that it mayY he operated hy power through other means new well known. In ease .said levoris to he operated hy other means than by hand the power ma)r he coupled to the lever nt 32, Fiere. 5 and (i.

Itis desirable that the aarde shall he arrested in order to permit lSeveral envelope to he eteneiled with the same addreefil and in order to e'lleet this thf1 pitchers l!) will he hy )reference pivotillyeonnoc'lod or hinged to the )lateo1'harl7,sotl1at the); ma); he let down lar enough to prevent them I'rom engaging the lowern'ioSt card S in flu; hoppor lmingomor more .tenrilingropmations, wher-olijf the card at the time in iosiion mnh-r t he platen S may he employed to `donf-il wo or more envelope.

teedingof the `eteneil- In order v j l l i l l l The devices l pled lo th(-` frame carrying the in employed tor '-fleotmg this ohjeet are hestl and another arm carrying;r e

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illustrated in Figs. 1, 3, and 4 ehd will now' he described. Y

0n a shaft 33, ex tending across the frame of t te machine at the hack, are two cams 34, disposed under the respeetive pushers 19 in position normally to uphold them and keep them in the operative feeding;r position or plane 0n the shaft 33 ie a rateliet-wheel 85, having a stop-paw] 36 (See Fig. 4) to prevent hach rotation. An operatingr spring-pani 37 is earried by an arm 3H, secured to an upright arhor 39, which reeks in a hearing in the machine-hed and has secured to its u )per end a regnlatin r-arnt 4r), Fig. l, which has an aperture in end te receive a pin 41, that mayY secure the erin 40 in any one of several positions hy engaging holes in, se, y, hed of the machine.

'lhe operation is as follows: wheel .'35 has (or may have) twelve teeth, and the ram 34 ie doelde-ended, so that if from the operative position (seen in Fiji. 4) theeam is rotated half-way round its ot 1er end will litt the pusher into operative position. Now it' the ram is in p'oeition to uphold the pusher and the regulating-arm 4() is set at the hole w the pewlwill'not ant, as it will be drawn beek out of operative position. If the arm 4U be set at the hole ar, then it will rotate the rtttehet-Wheel 35 to the extent of one tooth a1; eaoh reciprocating movement of the pushe'rs. If said arm 4U he set at the hole y', it wilt @mise the paivl to nieve the ratchetwheel to the extent of two teeth at eaeh feedingr movement, and if set at the hole 2 the pawl will move the ratrhet-whoel tothe extent of t ln'ee teeth at eeeh feeding movement. Obviously when the Canis are not in position to elevate the pnehers into their Feeding o1- operative positioml no cards will he fed from the hopper, and the same raid will he employed at earh stenrilintv operation.

The pres-ont invention is not restrict-Hl to two or more pnshers and lifting-came there- 'Vwo are preferred; hut one broad pusher would serve, er the pnnhere might he rigidly connected togetherand only one ram emrlhes'e variations will he ohvious to any skilled mechanic.

The inking-roller 24 may be a rubber-oevered roller suitable for taking up and delivering the ink jn'operlj to the stencil.

Having thinv described my invention, I claim-- 1. A maehine for the pur )ose speei'fied, havintr an ink-fountain and momie-roller, an hiking-roller, cams which support the journals of said hiking-roller, a frame in whirh said roller la rarriod, means for feeding s1 endl-(arde into position to he inked by Iaid roller, a movable platen, a lever carrying said platen, a rork--shal't having an arm oeuking-roller stud-roller, an

The ratehetand z in the,

operaia' -arm havin eoenesot en edb sind girone for rgockmg said signi, @n havin? also e eem for operatively actuating the p aten, end a spring for' retreating, the 5 platen. Y r

2. A mehine for the pur ose specified, hevingen ink-fountain and ountain-roiier, seid relier bein provided on onejournai with Vegrntehet-Wheei and on the other ournel with ionsmpwheei, en operating-lever provided Wit e spring-pawl engaging seid fei'nhet` Wheel, e reci roeetin frame, an inkngroiier carried y seid be moved into and out of4 contact with the :5 fountain-roller by reoiproeetion of seid freine, s spur-wheei on the journei of the inkin roiier, eds ted to gear with the spur- W eel carried y the fountain-miler, a reciprocating platen, and means for feeding stenzo cil-cards to a, position under seid pieten.

3. A machine for the purpose specified, havin reciprocating devices for feeding n stenci -card to the stenciiing position, a re- Y ciprocatng platen, means for nking the z5"stencilcard, and means for intermitting the of the sbencii-cerds in order to effect a 'i' `ty of stenciiings from a single card, said means comprising automatic 1neohen ism for lowering the feeding deviee'ino an 3o inoperative plane.

ame and adapted to 'ifi In e meehine for the purpose specified, the combination with e. rezllrooating pieten, and Ineens for epplfving to the stencilml card, of Ineens for, eedmg the oards to the l stenoiiing-point, said means comprising a re# 3 5 ei roeetinbar, a pusher for the card, mountgivoteiy on seidber, `ai shaft 33, rotative y mounted in bearin on seid bar, a suyporting-eam 34 von sei shaft under seid pusher, s rstchebwheel 35 on said shaft and 4e en edjustsbie pwl 3?, adapted te engage seid retehevwheei when set for oerston.

5. 1n a nie-chine for the 'purpose specified, the combination with e reclprooetin pieten,

e reciprocating roller beiow seidv p aten for 45 eppiying ink to the stenciilcerd, an means for feeding the cards to the stenciiing-point, consisting of a, pusher carried by 2. reciproceting bar, of a device for intermitting the feeding of the cards, said device consisting of 5o automatic means for iowering the pusher into en inoperative piene and raising it into the' operative piane, elterneteiy, es set forth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my neme, this 4th dey oiAugust, 1905, in the 55 presence of two subscribin witnesses.

` JAG B J, BRAUN. Witnosses:

HENRY CONNn'rr, H. G. Hose. 

